Hot in the city
An assortment of snapshots taken in the Summer heat of my Pacific Northwest town.
Camera used was an $8 Fujifilm Finepix Z
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Trains and boats and.....
Out and about in my neck of the woods.
Camera used was an $8 Fujifilm Finepix Z
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Summertime, and the living is easy....
Here are some pictures taken around my town, in the heat of Summer.
Camera used was an $8 Fujifilm Finepix Z
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American Dream
Chevrolet Malibu, near the waterfront here in Washington State, just before Independence Day.
Camera used was an $8 Fujifilm Finepix Z
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The Old and the New
Classic Corvette, the Old.
Contemporary Mustang, the New
Camera used was a $8 Fujifilm Finepix Z
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Ford Mustang in Black and White
I think I should post some more photos that I have taken recently.
In the town where I live in Washington State I see a wide spectrum of car types. Here is a classic Ford Mustang, in Black and White.
Camera used was a $8 Fujifilm Finepix Z
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On This Day
Thursday 13th March 1947
75 years agoThe Maserati A6 1500. the marque's first production car, was unveiled at the Geneva Show. This first prototype was a two-door, two-seat, three window berlinetta with triple square portholes on its fully integrated front wings, a tapered cabin and futuristic hidden headlamps. The car was put into low volume production, and most received Pininfarina coachwork. For production Pininfarina toned down the prototype's design, switching to conventional headlamps; soon after a second side window was added. Later cars received a different 2+2 fastback body style.
Maserati A6 1500
Cummins unveils 15L hydrogen engine - Green Car Congress
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/05/20220517-cummins.html
Cummins unveils 15L hydrogen engine
Cummins unveils 15L hydrogen engine
17 May 2022At the recent ACT Expo in Long Beach, California, Cummins debuted its 15-liter hydrogen engine. This engine is built on Cummins’ new fuel-agnostic platform, where below the head gasket each fuel type’s engine has largely similar components, and above the head gasket, each has different components for different fuel types.
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This version, with expected full production in 2027, pairs with clean, zero-carbon hydrogen fuel, a key enabler of Cummins’ strategy to go further faster to help customers reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
We’ve established significant goals as part of our PLANET 2050 sustainability strategy, including a target of zero emissions. Reducing well-to-wheels carbon emissions requires innovation of both energy sources and power solutions. While use cases for battery electric and fuel cell electric powertrains are promising, the pairing of green hydrogen in the proven technology of internal combustion engines provides an important complement to future zero emissions solutions.
—Srikanth Padmanabhan, President, Engine Business, Cummins Inc.Cummins announced the testing of hydrogen internal combustion (ICE) technology in July 2021, and has made impressive early results, already achieving production power and torque targets (more than 810 ft-lb torque and 290 hp from the medium-duty engine). Additional testing on Cummins’ more advanced prototypes will begin soon. With Cummins’ significant global manufacturing footprint, the company can quickly scale production.
The industry needs multiple solutions to meet the needs of all on- and off-highway customers and all applications considering the variation in duty cycles and operating environments, the company said.
The engine will be a zero-carbon fueled solution for multiple markets. Cummins intends to produce hydrogen internal combustion engines in both the 15-liter and 6.7-liter displacements, believing that these engines enable the industry to take action and reduce GHG emissions yet this decade, ultimately accelerating carbon reduction.
Working with Cummins to navigate the journey to zero emissions means working with an experienced partner that has the right knowledge, tools, and resources to ensure a smooth transition. Our customers are responding favorably to this practical technology. These engines look like engines, they sound like engines, and fit where engines normally fit.
—Jim Nebergall, General Manger, Hydrogen Engines at Cummins Inc.Hydrogen internal combustion engines use zero-carbon fuel at a lower initial price of a fuel cell or battery electric vehicle with little modification to today’s vehicles. Accelerated market adoption of hydrogen engine powered vehicles is driven by the technology’s high technology maturity, low initial cost, extended vehicle range, fast fueling, powertrain installation commonality, and end-user familiarity.
On this day in motoring - Tuesday 14th December 2004
http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/1868
On This Day
Tuesday 14th December 2004
17 years agoThe Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau), a large cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France, was formally dedicated by President Jacques Chirac and opened to traffic 2 days later. It is the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, with one mast’s summit at 343 metres (1,125 ft), which is slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower and only 38 metres (125 ft) shorter than the Empire State Building. The viaduct is part of the A75-A71 autoroute axis from Paris to Béziers.
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On this day in motoring - Sunday 14th December 1947
http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/4066
On This Day
Sunday 14th December 1947
74 years agoFrench pioneer automotive engineer and manufacturer, Louis Delage (73) died in poverty. Frenchman Louis Delage realized the enormous potential for the automobile and raised enough money to open his own assembly plant in a converted barn in Levallois at the outskirts of Paris in 1905. The stylish road cars sold well and two decades on the Company entered the motor racing scene. In 1927 Robert Benoist won all the major Grands Prix with the superb Delage 15-S-8. Louis Delage's dream evaporated with the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Company struggled and went into liquidation, the rights to the Delage name auctioned off to the Delahaye car company in 1935. Louis Delage was nearly 60 years old and he found himself too poor to afford a car.
On this day in motoring - Saturday 13th December 2003
http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/10500
On This Day
Saturday 13th December 2003
18 years agoSeattle preservationists loaded the city's iconic Hat 'n' Boots Tex Gas Station onto a tractor-trailer and drive it away from the spot where it had stood for almost 50 years. The hat, a 44-foot–wide Stetson, went first; the 22-foot–tall cowboy boots followed it one at a time. (The giant hat had always been mostly for show--it had perched atop the filling station's office, luring drivers off the highway. The boots, on the other had, were eminently functional: The left one housed the men's restroom and the right one housed the women's.) The buildings were famous examples of mid-century roadside Pop Art (eagle-eyed viewers can even see them in the opening credits of the film "National Lampoon's Vacation") and the move, to a nearby park, saved them from demolition. Developer Buford Seals intended the Hat 'n' Boots (built in 1955) to be the centrepiece of a gigantic shopping centre that he called the Frontier Village. It sat alongside Route 99, the Pacific Northwest's major north-south highway. He hired artist Lewis H. Nasmyth to design the enormous structure, and the two men built it themselves out of steel beams, plaster and chicken wire. It cost $150,000, almost all the money Seals had. After the filling station was finished, he managed to scrape together enough cash to build the (ordinary-looking) Frontier Village Supermarket, but the mall's remaining 184 stores never materialised. The supermarket, which quickly went out of business, but, for the first five years it was open, the Hat 'n' Boots sold more gasoline than any other station in Washington. Rumour has it that Elvis even pumped gas there! But the completion of the bigger, more modern Interstate 5 just a few miles away drained most of Route 99's traffic, and the Hat 'n' Boots became more of a tourist curiosity than anything else. It closed in 1988. When they reached their new home in Oxbow Park, the disintegrating boots were restored almost immediately. In 2007, Seattle city officials paid $150,000 to revitalise the hat as well.
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